Let's keep it clean and positive in here.
Thanks every one!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2958197
[ROM][CM12][UNOFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 12 BETA - LS990
Loving the 12/03 build, Everything is so smooth.
Testing now will report back later , Thank you! :good:
Only problems I've come across so far is send button in stock messaging app does nothing. Having to use hangouts. And location toggle on power control widget does not work either. Other than that its amazing
SimPup said:
Only problems I've come across so far is send button in stock messaging app does nothing. Having to use hangouts. And location toggle on power control widget does not work either. Other than that its amazing
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Try this messaging app update. Was updated by Google today. Updating a system app like this (I think my problem was Google Play Music), from gapps 5.0 fixed my issue.
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Try this messaging app update. Was updated by Google today. Updating a system app like this (I think my problem was Google Play Music), from gapps 5.0 fixed my issue.
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Yeah other apps work just fine. Its the stock message app that won't send anything. Not that big of a deal. I like hangouts better anyways. Was just sharing bugs with the rom.
Anyone experiencing the screen coming on in pocket. I have had that issue with all builds of CM and G3. I use nova and greenify to tap to sleep and tap to wake.
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Anyone experiencing the screen coming on in pocket. I have had that issue with all builds of CM and G3. I use nova and greenify to tap to sleep and tap to wake.
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Lol had 67 pictures of the inside of my pocket yesterday
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Lol had 67 pictures of the inside of my pocket yesterday
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Well at least I know I'm not crazy. This build is super slick. Super spoiled on the tap to wake and sleep feature.
SimPup said:
Lol had 67 pictures of the inside of my pocket yesterday
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Hahaha holy crap that's insane!! I am yet to see a case like that in my time with the g3 but if it persists, maybe get a tempered glass to slightly lower the sensitivity of your screen? Or just disabled double tap to wake
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Hahaha holy crap that's insane!! I am yet to see a case like that in my time with the g3 but if it persists, maybe get a tempered glass to slightly lower the sensitivity of your screen? Or just disabled double tap to wake
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Lol yeah that's the first time it ever happened. There was like 3 hours i didn't check my phone and couldn't figure out why I lost like 25% battery til I got home and seen the pics haha.
Switched to Android after several year with iPhones and long before that I had a HTC evo... (Bleh). Lovin it so far, just few questions with CM12. (hopefully this is the right place)
-does Cm12 support exFat format, I understand TWRP doesn't recognize my sd card due to that, just wondering if CM12 would and recommendation if I should format it to FAT32. ( I have definitely read that if I don't format it to FAT32 the rom won't mount it correctly)
-I am traveling out of town this christmas, usually I would just call sprint to unlock it internationally so I can use a sim card while I'm abroad. If I flash cm12 would this still work or would I have to do some complicated adb shell command and stuff to unlock it myself?
Really appreciate this forum and its awesome, helpful people. Glad I'm in this ship with y'all.
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Lol yeah that's the first time it ever happened. There was like 3 hours i didn't check my phone and couldn't figure out why I lost like 25% battery til I got home and seen the pics haha.
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I have only had it happen with CM flavors. Stock no issues.
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Lol yeah that's the first time it ever happened. There was like 3 hours i didn't check my phone and couldn't figure out why I lost like 25% battery til I got home and seen the pics haha.
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Classic lol. Did it happen again?
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Switched to Android after several year with iPhones and long before that I had a HTC evo... (Bleh). Lovin it so far, just few questions with CM12. (hopefully this is the right place)
-does Cm12 support exFat format, I understand TWRP doesn't recognize my sd card due to that, just wondering if CM12 would and recommendation if I should format it to FAT32. ( I have definitely read that if I don't format it to FAT32 the rom won't mount it correctly)
-I am traveling out of town this christmas, usually I would just call sprint to unlock it internationally so I can use a sim card while I'm abroad. If I flash cm12 would this still work or would I have to do some complicated adb shell command and stuff to unlock it myself?
Really appreciate this forum and its awesome, helpful people. Glad I'm in this ship with y'all.
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Whether or not the ROM supports exFat, I would format it regardless so TWRP can access it. It makes it easier on yourself. My logic is; what if this awesome new rom comes out and it doesn't have exFAT support for a while and you really want to access your music and photos? It's just easier to format it to FAT32 and never have that problem. I actually have a link to format it if need be. I'm running Windows 7 on my laptop so my 64gb Micro SD did not have a FAT32 option for formatting by default. I did read that Windows 8 users do not have this issue. I tried three different programs and this was the only one that actually was successful in formatting my card to FAT32: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
CM12 does not include activation tools (which is why you don't do an advanced wipe when flashing to this since you need to keep the activation bits from the ROM you are coming from) and as such my feeling is that Sprint won't touch the device for unlocking. Also, the rep likely has no experience with CM so you're better off just putting it on stock to get it properly configured and then flashing back to CM once you've gotten the thing unlocked. I've seen some stuff about build.prop edits and whatnot to run the phone on different carriers without official unlocks but I don't recall seeing definite evidence that it works. You're best off asking someone else about that one.
I'm waiting for CM12 to download myself! I want to join the fun. Is there anything that can be done to improve the slow download speeds for the builds? I've been spoiled for far too long by androidfilehost and the fact that it's taking 45 minutes to download 244MB is killing me. I can wait, I'd just love an alternative if one exists.
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Whether or not the ROM supports exFat, I would format it regardless so TWRP can access it. It makes it easier on yourself. My logic is; what if this awesome new rom comes out and it doesn't have exFAT support for a while and you really want to access your music and photos? It's just easier to format it to FAT32 and never have that problem. I actually have a link to format it if need be. I'm running Windows 7 on my laptop so my 64gb Micro SD did not have a FAT32 option for formatting by default. I did read that Windows 8 users do not have this issue. I tried three different programs and this was the only one that actually was successful in formatting my card to FAT32: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
CM12 does not include activation tools (which is why you don't do an advanced wipe when flashing to this since you need to keep the activation bits from the ROM you are coming from) and as such my feeling is that Sprint won't touch the device for unlocking. Also, the rep likely has no experience with CM so you're better off just putting it on stock to get it properly configured and then flashing back to CM once you've gotten the thing unlocked. I've seen some stuff about build.prop edits and whatnot to run the phone on different carriers without official unlocks but I don't recall seeing definite evidence that it works. You're best off asking someone else about that one.
I'm waiting for CM12 to download myself! I want to join the fun. Is there anything that can be done to improve the slow download speeds for the builds? I've been spoiled for far too long by androidfilehost and the fact that it's taking 45 minutes to download 244MB is killing me. I can wait, I'd just love an alternative if one exists.
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Thant makes sense, guess I will just have sprint unlock it before I flash the ROM. Thanks for answering probably really stupid questions!
In regards to reformatting, I have heard that formatting an exFat to Fat32 will eventually lead to corruption of the SD card later on. That's why I was hesitant.
But for downloading the build, it took longer than usual but nothing crazy like 45 minute... I wasn't on WiFi and it took like 5-10 minute max... Guess I'm just lucky?
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Thant makes sense, guess I will just have sprint unlock it before I flash the ROM. Thanks for answering probably really stupid questions!
In regards to reformatting, I have heard that formatting an exFat to Fat32 will eventually lead to corruption of the SD card later on. That's why I was hesitant.
But for downloading the build, it took longer than usual but nothing crazy like 45 minute... I wasn't on WiFi and it took like 5-10 minute max... Guess I'm just lucky?
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Hmm, I didn't hear anything about corruption.... I should look into that. Worst case it gets corrupted and I just reformat it and start over
Don't be ridiculous! This is XDA. There are only two kinds of stupid questions: The question about ETAs, and the question about something that is clearly stated in the main post. Yours is neither of those so your questions are entirely legitimate.
Lucky... I figured if anything it'd be better for me being that it's now 4am, so server traffic should be lower... I have definitely been downloading this for about an hour now and it's got another 70 or so MB to download. I'm on my home wifi network which hit the speeds you'll see in the image below, WITH the download going on in the background. Normally I'm topping out around 60mbps down. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to flash. Meh. My luck it'll finish and when I check the MD5 it'll be partially corrupted. Hehe
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Hmm, I didn't hear anything about corruption.... I should look into that. Worst case it gets corrupted and I just reformat it and start over [emoji14]
Don't be ridiculous! This is XDA. There are only two kinds of stupid questions: The question about ETAs, and the question about something that is clearly stated in the main post. Yours is neither of those so your questions are entirely legitimate.
Lucky... I figured if anything it'd be better for me being that it's now 4am, so server traffic should be lower... I have definitely been downloading this for about an hour now and it's got another 70 or so MB to download. I'm on my home wifi network which hit the speeds you'll see in the image below, WITH the download going on in the background. Normally I'm topping out around 60mbps down. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to flash. Meh. My luck it'll finish and when I check the MD5 it'll be partially corrupted. Hehe
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Hmmmm. I just downloaded the 12/4 build again because I accidentally whiped my internal storage and system while restoring to stock to get sprint to unlock (ops). It definitely did not take that long... Lemme test me download speed and report back
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Erm my wifi DL speed is definitely worse than yours per speed test
Question are you downloading the zip using computer or your phone? (Not sure if that makes a difference, but I'm on my phone)
Still no native mms ... And suddenly can't write to ext sd
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Still no native mms ... And suddenly can't write to ext sd
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No MMS here as well. Anyone know what the culprit could be? I have data and it works.
Native mms is a hit and miss for me depending on phone and rom. I didn't even try textra on this rom, because I we having to many issues just trying to call someone. My dialer and contacts FCing in a weird way.
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When I first received my Galaxy Player, I was ecstatic; my first Android device! Well that was back in June 2012 and now it's becoming more of a frustration than anything!
I got into the modding scene just like the old days with the Sony PSP so I've rooted the device and flashed many ROMs over the months. I've found some really nice setups and learned a lot. I've ended up with the following setup and I love it:
Galaxy Player 5 International
Kernel: rj's custom kernel for Galaxy Player 5.0 INTL (YP-G70) r14
ROM: G70XXKPH Gingerbread 2.3.6 Stock Firmware
Launcher: Xperia Home 2.2.A.0.14.ra3al.r7
Since the Galaxy Player doesn't have support any variant of ICS with a working camera I went after the best GB ROM I could find. I've tried Chip, Entropy and others but they've all had their problems and I moved on to my current one. I can actually hear the Android tap sounds on this when I touch an icon like in the stock GB ROM! Among other reasons I believe this ROM to be my best option.
As for launchers, I've been through all the popular ones including all of the TouchWiz's, Go Launcher, Holo and now Xperia. This one is absolutely amazing! I love nearly everything about it, especially the animations and layouts! It pairs really nicely with the weather widget app too!
I finally get all of this setup and performing smoothly and quite fast too! But of course there has to be problems ~
The biggest problem is the card reader very often hiccups and thinks the cards are damaged or have been unmounted or removed randomly. This happens with more than 2 of my cards so it's the device itself!
Frequently random crashes where I cannot turn the display or anything on, requires hard reboot.
The camera very occasionally winds up with a disabled touch screen after taking a picture.
The camera often doesn't even load past a black screen with the status bar to the side.
Etc..
I'm starting to think it's best to stick with the Stock ROM and use my favorite Launcher and Kernel and avoid all this hassle! Although I was under the impression that I AM using the stock ROM, minus the tweaks mentioned on the developer's thread. Does anyone know why I'm having all of these problems?
My goal is to get this device back to factory default settings including ROM and Kernel. I just got the thing in a bootloop after flashing the stock ROM via Odin so I'm trying to figure that out. I'm also having difficulty finding the legit stock ROM and possibly Kernel, where could I get those if you don't mind?
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My goal is to get this device back to factory default settings including ROM and Kernel. I just got the thing in a bootloop after flashing the stock ROM via Odin so I'm trying to figure that out. I'm also having difficulty finding the legit stock ROM and possibly Kernel, where could I get those if you don't mind?
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Latest legit stock ROM is linked from the end of the KPH thread. It includes the kernel.
However, no stock kernel supports the ext4 filesystem. That means if your /data or /cache are formatted to ext4, it cannot read them and bootloops. To fix, either go into recovery and wipe data and cache, or if you have things on there that you don't want to lose, flash Rumirand's kernel again with Odin, go into cwm, and make a nandroid. You will still have to wipe data from "Android System Recovery" after flashing stock, but you will have a backup.
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Latest legit stock ROM is linked from the end of the KPH thread. It includes the kernel.
However, no stock kernel supports the ext4 filesystem. That means if your /data or /cache are formatted to ext4, it cannot read them and bootloops. To fix, either go into recovery and wipe data and cache, or if you have things on there that you don't want to lose, flash Rumirand's kernel again with Odin, go into cwm, and make a nandroid. You will still have to wipe data from "Android System Recovery" after flashing stock, but you will have a backup.
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Thanks for the tip! I was wondering how to get back into recovery since holding down and/or home wasn't working at this point. Didn't remember that you could flash r14 with Odin. I'll have to try that!
Do you have any experience with the complaints I have about the device or am I the only one who's device tends to act up this way?
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Thanks for the tip! I was wondering how to get back into recovery since holding down and/or home wasn't working at this point. Didn't remember that you could flash r14 with Odin. I'll have to try that!
Do you have any experience with the complaints I have about the device or am I the only one who's device tends to act up this way?
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No, I haven't experienced them, but I spend most of my time on ROMs where camera is broken. Your issues sound specific to your device, or to your ROM/kernel. I recommend upgrading to XXKPL, as that may help.
And I believe on International devices recovery is vol UP and home, not down.
Mevordel said:
No, I haven't experienced them, but I spend most of my time on ROMs where camera is broken. Your issues sound specific to your device, or to your ROM/kernel. I recommend upgrading to XXKPL, as that may help.
And I believe on International devices recovery is vol UP and home, not down.
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That was a typo, I meant to say "Up+Home", Down is download mode lol, woops.
My new setup (before reading your post):
Kernel: r14
Firmware: 2.3.6
Build: GINGERBREAD.XXKPH
What's the difference between XXKPH and XXKPL?
Update: I'm trying to flash XXKPL with Odin but it just makes the device bootloop. I'm even using a .pit named "G70-GalaxyPlayer5.0-8gig-Inter_model_2.3.5" but it just bootloops. So I'm figuring it's due to that file extension situation and I'm trying to figure out how to properly flash this Stock (XXKPL) ROM properly.
Update: Okay! It seems all you need to do is flash rem's r14 kernel and the device boots right up. Shame there's no one click fix to just flash the Stock ROM without issue like with flashing a custom ROM through CWM Recovery Menu.
Now I'm sitting at:
ROM: Stock G70XXKPL
Firmware: 2.3.6
Kernel: Rem's R14
I look forward to the first problem in this setup!
The new JB roms are in Nightly betas. So far all of the things that we are missing from it are Camera (kinda works), functionality for the earphones/headphones (you have to plug in earphones with a mic and then all of the other types work). That's really the only major problems I can remember and they are all close to being fixed.
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The new JB roms are in Nightly betas. So far all of the things that we are missing from it are Camera (kinda works), functionality for the earphones/headphones (you have to plug in earphones with a mic and then all of the other types work). That's really the only major problems I can remember and they are all close to being fixed.
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That's pretty impressive! I had no idea they were that far along in JB! I could search for it myself but I'd probably find the wrong thing, could you give me a link to this particular JB Project please? I really want to follow and support it!
Ah and of course all day I've been dealing with this device of mine misbehaving! Every time I pull it out of my pocket and try to wake it up it just doesn't respond, no lights no screen, there's nothing. I have to keep hard booting it every few hours!
The worst thing is the camera almost never loads anymore! Either the default or my Camera Zoom FX app. I launch it and it never fully loads up or if it does it either takes 1 pic and then the touch screen doesn't respond. Or it says there's a problem with the SD card like it's missing or damaged so it doesn't save the pictures.
There is always something with this device I'm so annoyed with it -_-. Any help or advice? Because I'm at my whit's end here with ideas!
Update: I'm actually starting to suspect the Xperia S Home Launcher as the problem here. I noticed this did mostly start to get worse when I installed it and so far since I removed every Xperia-related software and went to default TouchWiz that it's performing just fine. I hope it stays this way but what a shame, I really like the Xperia Launcher. Even more than my favorite Go Launcher Ex! D:
Here is JB http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2077671
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DZonikg said:
Here is JB http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2077671
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Thanks for that! I was under the impression that CyanOgen 10.1 was the main JB ROM. Glad I asked lol.
Btw a little update with my Galaxy Player!
The Good:
So far, since I've switched back to TouchWiz and dropped Xperia (sadface), my device has not locked up on me!
The camera also stays functional!
The Bad:
"SD card unexpectedly removed" continues to randomly occur (as I'm writing this)! Why? The card is still in there, I never touched it.
Still, when I power it down, the device sometimes hangs at the black screen and never completes the process!
Must reboot first to connect USB to PC. Even with USB Debugging disabled and Mass Storage selected.
Is this normal? I'm seriously starting to wonder..
SesukaShindo said:
The Bad:
"SD card unexpectedly removed" continues to randomly occur (as I'm writing this)! Why? The card is still in there, I never touched it.
Still, when I power it down, the device sometimes hangs at the black screen and never completes the process!
Must reboot first to connect USB to PC. Even with USB Debugging disabled and Mass Storage selected.
Is this normal? I'm seriously starting to wonder..
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Is not normal... Never got ext. SD Card unmounted or remove notification in 4 months of use. My advice was to try with another SD Card but you already done this!
Try clean the SD Card socket (blow on it) and push and pop some times the card, just to be sure that there isn't some dirt that make false contact.
If the problem persist i'd suggest to bring at garancy assistence.
Mine takes much time too... it takes more time to turn off that turn on, but after an half minute it vibrate and turn off itself.
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Is not normal... Never got ext. SD Card unmounted or remove notification in 4 months of use. My advice was to try with another SD Card but you already done this!
Try clean the SD Card socket (blow on it) and push and pop some times the card, just to be sure that there isn't some dirt that make false contact.
If the problem persist i'd suggest to bring at garancy assistence.
Mine takes much time too... it takes more time to turn off that turn on, but after an half minute it vibrate and turn off itself.
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I just tried using air pressure to clear out any dirt and no improvements thus far.
Main problems:
Camera works 50% of the time.
SD Card reader randomly claims 'unexpectedly unmounted'.
USB storage randomly stops successfully connecting.
My question now:
I feel like my particular Galaxy Player is a Lemon. What is the manufacture's warranty for this if I bought it from Samsung? What are the chances of me exchanging it or getting it refurbished or w/e after all this modding? (shot in the dark lol)
SesukaShindo said:
I just tried using air pressure to clear out any dirt and no improvements thus far.
Main problems:
Camera works 50% of the time.
SD Card reader randomly claims 'unexpectedly unmounted'.
USB storage randomly stops successfully connecting.
My question now:
I feel like my particular Galaxy Player is a Lemon. What is the manufacture's warranty for this if I bought it from Samsung? What are the chances of me exchanging it or getting it refurbished or w/e after all this modding? (shot in the dark lol)
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Flash back to stock and they'll never know.
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Flash back to stock and they'll never know.
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Lol, stock is KPL right?
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Lol, stock is KPL right?
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Yes
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Awesome, then I'll stick to KPL for now. Oddly enough I have this setup:
ROM: KPL
Kernel: Remirand's r14
Launcher: Xperia (i can't help it!)
And so far the only persistent issue is the SD Card "unexpectedly removed" and the occasional need for a hard boot. Hopefully this is the worst of it, aside from the minor nuisance . I think my device will always have those.
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I have similar SD card problems. I use it primarily as a music player, and at random intervals I'll get messages in the stock music app saying either "This file does not exist", or "This file type is not recognized."
Typically, I have to remove and remount the SD card, sometimes several times, to clear the error.
Ya my problems are all still persisting an really bad now.. Going to send device to samsung through warranty. This is definitely a hardware issue and i cant fix it!
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Ya my problems are all still persisting an really bad now.. Going to send device to samsung through warranty. This is definitely a hardware issue and i cant fix it!
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Yeah, I gave up on it. Returning it to Amazon today.
I'm testing out my Galaxy Tab as a music player...seems to work OK so far.
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Yeah, I gave up on it. Returning it to Amazon today.
I'm testing out my Galaxy Tab as a music player...seems to work OK so far.
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If only I had these problems within the first 30 days, then I could return it easy to Amazon as well. Hopefully I have success with Samsung Warranty. One annoying thing is I have only 10 days to make sure the device arrives at their site before my claim ticket is canceled so I have to wait to create a new ticket to use it. Such a hassle.
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Hello,
I'm writing this as a last refuge to console myself. I got caught up in a dangerous situation today in which I had to give up my android phone i.e. Motorola Atrix 2 in order to save my life. Since all my personal and official data was stored on the sd card, which I couldn't pull out from the phone, I had activated the factory reset - including sd card formatting - before handing it over. As luck would have it, I was pressurized to give it up before the process finished so in a bid to save the data from getting into the wrong hands, I pulled out the battery while it was erasing data from the sd card according to the dialog box. My questions is: What are the chances of the sd card getting corrupted and the data becoming inaccessible? I need to know as I'm under a lot of stress because of it and there's no chance of getting it back. I had changed my google account's password the moment I reached home (after fifteen to twenty minutes) so I also the phone would have locked out. Please respond at the earliest.
Thanks.
It probably deleted some files depending on how long the dialog was up. From my past experiences sometimes I got a corrupt card (very rare) and sometimes a few files were deleted. The only thing you can do from this point is to actually check and see it any damage was done.
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It probably deleted some files depending on how long the dialog was up. From my past experiences sometimes I got a corrupt card (very rare) and sometimes a few files were deleted. The only thing you can do from this point is to actually check and see it any damage was done.
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It was up for 30 seconds to a minute. May be a little more. What do you think?
How much difference does it make if I change my Google account's password?
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It was up for 30 seconds to a minute. May be a little more. What do you think?
How much difference does it make if I change my Google account's password?
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Could be a lot of data was deleted but it shouldn't be corrupt as far as I know just most likely completely formatted. So yea, tell you carrier that you don't have the phone anymore. The person who took your phone will just have to create his own Google account afterwards. Call the cops? They could trace the number and whatnot. I guess I didn't understand what I was reading the first time I read the post, you were held at life or death to give up your phone? That sounds horrifying, I'm sorry.
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Could be a lot of data was deleted but it shouldn't be corrupt as far as I know just most likely completely formatted. So yea, tell you carrier that you don't have the phone anymore. The person who took your phone will just have to create his own Google account afterwards. Call the cops? They could trace the number and whatnot. I guess I didn't understand what I was reading the first time I read the post, you were held at life or death to give up your phone? That sounds horrifying, I'm sorry.
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Being an ordinary citizen, I don't have such luxuries available in my country so I have to do pretty much everything myself. I was and it's been a terrible experience - mostly just because of my data. If he logs in from another Google account on my phone, will he be able to access my apps/contacts? I had taken the battery and sim out while it was factory resetting so he'd be asked to sign-in again, right?
Thanks a lot for your response.
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Being an ordinary citizen, I don't have such luxuries available in my country so I have to do pretty much everything myself. I was and it's been a terrible experience - mostly just because of my data. If he logs in from another Google account on my phone, will he be able to access my apps/contacts? I had taken the battery and sim out while it was factory resetting so he'd be asked to sign-in again, right?
Thanks a lot for your response.
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Really sorry to hear that!
Quite shocked as well
Well,if factory reset is complete which I believe shouldn't take upto 1 min [still,depends on your data, ]
Then,he'll have to sign in for sure!
If you've not backed up your contacts to Sd card and he doesn't know to recover it back, then you're contacts are safe!
However you should have probably tried not removing battery at that time [I know it's easier said than done, anyways I sincerely hope things go fine and also hope you are alright]
Take care
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Really sorry to hear that!
Quite shocked as well
Well,if factory reset is complete which I believe shouldn't take upto 1 min [still,depends on your data, ]
Then,he'll have to sign in for sure!
If you've not backed up your contacts to Sd card and he doesn't know to recover it back, then you're contacts are safe!
However you should have probably tried not removing battery at that time [I know it's easier said than done, anyways I sincerely hope things go fine and also hope you are alright]
Take care
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Yes, I'm still in shock and under a lot of stress.
Factory resetting hadn't completed and it was erasing sd card when I pulled the battery out hoping it would get corrupted. To see what happens in such a situation, I went to a friend's place today who has the same phone. We used his spare sd card of 4 gb (mine was 32gb with at least only twelve gbs free) to perform the same action. I started the factory reset with sd card formatting and pulled the battery out once it started erasing (didnt give it as much time as I had given to mine. After doing that I inserted the battery again and restarted the phone to check the sd card but it had corrupted although it didn't ask me for any gmail id. That's some relief but my card had larger storage so there are some doubts as well. *sigh*
I don't remember backing them up so I'm not sure.
I wish I could...
Thanks a lot, brothers. Do let me know what you think. Its very much appreciated.
You take care as well.
Apps and contacts data are linked to your Gmail so the guy shouldn't have access to any of your data without your Gmail account. Good news that the sd card got corrupt, at least it's safe to know there's a higher chance to know it corrupted or not.
If you backed up your contacts on sd card and he finds the vcard he will restore it into another android phone! I think the sd card will got corupted!
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Apps and contacts data are linked to your Gmail so the guy shouldn't have access to any of your data without your Gmail account. Good news that the sd card got corrupt, at least it's safe to know there's a higher chance to know it corrupted or not.
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Good to know that! I agree. I'm just hoping everything and everyone remains safe...
Just to be 100% safe, I would change the password to all my major information first. Things that have to do with credit cards like PayPal or ebay. But since you factory reset the phone it also removed the pass code you had put in it (I'm almost certain it does). Just watch yourself is all I can say, watch your online activities to see if he has any of your info.
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Just to be 100% safe, I would change the password to all my major information first. Things that have to do with credit cards like PayPal or ebay. But since you factory reset the phone it also removed the pass code you had put in it (I'm almost certain it does). Just watch yourself is all I can say, watch your online activities to see if he has any of your info.
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Working on that. I'm even watching my physical activities.
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Working on that. I'm even watching my physical activities.
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Well that's good. It sucks to have to watch your every move to avoid being treated wrongly. I hope everything goes well .
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Well that's good. It sucks to have to watch your every move to avoid being treated wrongly. I hope everything goes well .
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You bet!
*sigh*
Thanks a lot, brother! Its really appreciated.
Hello, I flashed the XE-SeroROM and kernel from the dev thread and would like to revert to stock. I see the stock firmware available but does anyone know where I can locate the stock kernel as well? Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: In addition, does anyone know how I might restore functionality to vudu? A good addition to the first post in that dev thread would be a warning that it kills vudu and even reverting to stock doesn't fix it.
I took the Boot.img provided and inserted it into the kerneltest.zip and it seems to have worked. The OTA update is almost working now. Seems to fail at "set_perm" status 7. ??
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Still no joy. I managed to get back to stock recovery, stock kernel, stock OS (is this really stock?), and even mostly apply the update thus breaking wifi so...restore everything stock and no vudu. It seems once you root flash recovery then vudu is a lost cause for good? Is it requiring a secure key in the original rom that gets lost when flashing maybe? I guess since I'm in the window, I'm going to just return it and grab another.
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Still no joy. I managed to get back to stock recovery, stock kernel, stock OS (is this really stock?), and even mostly apply the update thus breaking wifi so...restore everything stock and no vudu. It seems once you root flash recovery then vudu is a lost cause for good? Is it requ. ing a secure key in the original rom that gets lost when flashing maybe? I guess since I'm in the window, I'm going to just return it and grab another.
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Yeah I ran into the same problem trying to install the update...got an error and my wifi quit working. So I reinstalled the stock ROM. Once we have ten posts we can ask in the forum. Other than that I love this tablet. I am sure someone will make a ROM with the update included. Remember the sero 7 is new and I am confident the best is yet to come for it. You might want to hang onto it.
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Yeah I ran into the same problem trying to install the update...got an error and my wifi quit working. So I reinstalled the stock ROM. Once we have ten posts we can ask in the forum. Other than that I love this tablet. I am sure someone will make a ROM with the update included. Remember the sero 7 is new and I am confident the best is yet to come for it. You might want to hang onto it.
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I just exchanged it for another one. I think there is a security feature in it the same as with some other embedded devices that won't allow it to become "stock" once again after you flash a custom rom. It should have been able to install the update fully and use vudu if it had truly been returned to original condition. I hope they consider posting a warning about that in the first post. I know Vudu doesn't matter to a lot of people but it is a pretty important feature to me and I like to be able to keep up with OTA updates if they have relevance to device specific drivers or whatever. The custom rom was cool though...I can't believe how much has been accomplished with it in a short time.
Sent from my M470BSA using xda app-developers app I too have not been able to update. I went back to stock but still the update failed.I wish someone would incorporate the update into a new ROM.I didn't know that I could not return to true stock or I wouldn't have installed the ROM. I've lost some of the stock apps too like the remote. But I still think the devs have done and amazing job for this early in this tablet release.
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I just exchanged it for another one. I think there is a security feature in it the same as with some other embedded devices that won't allow it to become "stock" once again after you flash a custom rom. It should have been able to install the update fully and use vudu if it had truly been returned to original condition. I hope they consider posting a warning about that in the first post. I know Vudu doesn't matter to a lot of people but it is a pretty important feature to me and I like to be able to keep up with OTA updates if they have relevance to device specific drivers or whatever. The custom rom was cool though...I can't believe how much has been accomplished with it in a short time.
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You are right about the warning. All I did was root mine and installed cwm..I did not install the custom ROM. I am sure they will find a work around for the update. I hope so cause i am just outside the 15 days.I don't use vudu but I understand. I know I could buy a new one and return this one but this one is perfect so i am gonna keep it. So we wait and see what happens next with Dev...lol
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Wendell S said:
Sent from my M470BSA using xda app-developers app I too have not been able to update. I went back to stock but still the update failed.I wish someone would incorporate the update into a new ROM.I didn't know that I could not return to true stock or I wouldn't have installed the ROM. I've lost some of the stock apps too like the remote. But I still think the devs have done and amazing job for this early in this tablet release.
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Yup..I know how you feel. I am going to hang in there and keep mine. The fact that so much has been done since release is a good indicator of much more to come. It will be interesting to see what the next rom will be.
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You are right about the warning. All I did was root mine and installed cwm..I did not install the custom ROM. I am sure they will find a work around for the update. I hope so cause i am just outside the 15 days.I don't use vudu but I understand. I know I could buy a new one and return this one but this one is perfect so i am gonna keep it. So we wait and see what happens next with Dev...lol
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Yup..I know how you feel. I am going to hang in there and keep mine. The fact that so much has been done since release is a good indicator of much more to come. It will be interesting to see what the next rom will be.
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I suppose karma bit me on the ass. I exchanged mine in perfect physical condition to get one with a stuck pixel and a spot near the bottom that looks like some kind of screen fault. Should have left well enough alone...I would rather do without vudu than have this. The update seems substantial though.
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I suppose karma bit me on the ass. I exchanged mine in perfect physical condition to get one with a stuck pixel and a spot near the bottom that looks like some kind of screen fault. Should have left well enough alone...I would rather do without vudu than have this. The update seems substantial though.
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1. why vudu? you have an entire android market.
2. xboxexpert provides an executable to go back to bone stock. just run from within windows.
3. you should learn to do it thru fastboot
4. i have a device tree and booting cm 10.1 but the mods wont let me post in dev forums or include links for another 7 post, damn nazis
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1. why vudu? you have an entire android market.
2. xboxexpert provides an executable to go back to bone stock. just run from within windows.
3. you should learn to do it thru fastboot
4. i have a device tree and booting cm 10.1 but the mods wont let me post in dev forums or include links for another 7 post, damn nazis
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If you were so smart, u should of figured, how ridiculously easy it is to make ten MEANINGFUL posts. Stop the whining, deal with it, and make those ten, THE RIGHT WAY!
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Vudu because it supports ultraviolet and contains much of my already owned content which I do not wish to purchase again. In general I prefer the service to google play video because it is on my Bluray players as well allowing me to easily view the same shared content on multiple locations. The "revert to stock" option does not fix the vudu app or the OTA updates either. Don't know about fastboot yet so no comment there.
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I suppose karma bit me on the ass. I exchanged mine in perfect physical condition to get one with a stuck pixel and a spot near the bottom that looks like some kind of screen fault. Should have left well enough alone...I would rather do without vudu than have this. The update seems substantial though.
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Sorry that happened to you. Maybe take it back and get another one? I would think the update does more than just patch a security hole. I mean it 50megs. It's a shame Hisense doesn't post revisions.
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andrewsandroid said:
1. why vudu? you have an entire android market.
2. xboxexpert provides an executable to go back to bone stock. just run from within windows.
3. you should learn to do it thru fastboot
4. i have a device tree and booting cm 10.1 but the mods wont let me post in dev forums or include links for another 7 post, damn nazis
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It puts the device back to what appears to be bone stock. But the update still does not install for me and yes I have tried everything. Have you tried installing the update after just doing a root and CWM and reverting back to the "stock rom"?
xboxexpert has a new version of his root and custom UI for the Sero 7 pro posted for the new build that came out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297246
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Hello, I flashed the XE-SeroROM and kernel from the dev thread and would like to revert to stock. I see the stock firmware available but does anyone know where I can locate the stock kernel as well? Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: In addition, does anyone know how I might restore functionality to vudu? A good addition to the first post in that dev thread would be a warning that it kills vudu and even reverting to stock doesn't fix it.
I took the Boot.img provided and inserted it into the kerneltest.zip and it seems to have worked. The OTA update is almost working now. Seems to fail at "set_perm" status 7. ??
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I dont care about vudu, but a warning would be nice for those who do
Has the vudu app been resolved? does anyone have an original backup?
jhienk said:
Has the vudu app been resolved?
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I have not had problems with Vudu, even after rooting my Sero 7 Pro, playing with XERom, and restoring it back to stock (but rooted). There are two differences that may be involved.
I only played with Vudu after restoring it to stock. I never ran it before.
I did a backup of my stock ROM and installed software immediate after installing CWM, and I used that to restore everything. (It's nice having 32GB of SD Card to backup to.)
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Hello, I flashed the XE-SeroROM and kernel from the dev thread and would like to revert to stock. I see the stock firmware available but does anyone know where I can locate the stock kernel as well? Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: In addition, does anyone know how I might restore functionality to vudu? A good addition to the first post in that dev thread would be a warning that it kills vudu and even reverting to stock doesn't fix it.
I took the Boot.img provided and inserted it into the kerneltest.zip and it seems to have worked. The OTA update is almost working now. Seems to fail at "set_perm" status 7. ??
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Weird, I still have my Vudu and remote apps after rooting & cwm on my sero7 pro. But then again, I just did the root 3 weeks ago so maybe the root file from the xbox Dev post has been modified/amended/fixed to fix that issue since the version you used back when you did yours. Either way.. I'm sorry that has happened to you, I also like my Vudu My problem now is waiting for them to release something to help us trick our devices into switching our internal storage path with our external/SD paths so we can actually USE our SD cards like intended>>for storing apps!.. spent all that damn money on a 32gb card cause I knew I was gonna be an app hog, only to turn out that all I can use it for is storing photos, video, docs and music..but no apps!?!! Ridic.. Grrr!
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Weird, I still have my Vudu and remote apps after rooting & cwm on my sero7 pro. But then again, I just did the root 3 weeks ago so maybe the root file from the xbox Dev post has been modified/amended/fixed to fix that issue since the version you used back when you did yours. Either way.. I'm sorry that has happened to you, I also like my Vudu My problem now is waiting for them to release something to help us trick our devices into switching our internal storage path with our external/SD paths so we can actually USE our SD cards like intended>>for storing apps!.. spent all that damn money on a 32gb card cause I knew I was gonna be an app hog, only to turn out that all I can use it for is storing photos, video, docs and music..but no apps!?!! Ridic.. Grrr!
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I use an app called "FolderMount" for linking my apps to the SD. So far, haven't had any issues with it - I've been able to move almost all of my resource hogging games to the SD without a hitch...
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Stock ROM my ass.
Lots of stuff ends up not working or missing.
He could just like at least let people know he fuxored up the so called "stock" ROM he posted.
Why vudu? ...because I had an account already.
anyway it is hilarious how this is such a respected site and so many things are joke on here and don't work correctly.
Anyway we all knew the risks going in so w/e.
Ditto..so I'm not the only one?!
NubzX said:
Stock ROM my ass.
Lots of stuff ends up not working or missing.
He could just like at least let people know he fuxored up the so called "stock" ROM he posted.
Why vudu? ...because I had an account already.
anyway it is hilarious how this is such a respected site and so many things are joke on here and don't work correctly.
Anyway we all knew the risks going in so w/e.
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Yeah, I'm having the SAAAME exact issues... about the first 3 weeks after rooting with that rom everything was allll good and great..... NOW, I have to shut down and reboot about 5-8 times A DAY!.. 'Launcher' stops working, and EVERY-DAMN-TIME my tablet goes to sleep/screen off for more than about 30-40 mins..it just crashes and you have to force it to shut down and reboot.. Rooting was soooo not worth it, I never even really ended up using any "root required" features or apps anyways, besides folder mount (stopped functioning), and GameKiller. And now I'm fizznucked cause even know my sero7p is only 2 MONTHS old/new and I bought the 2 year replacement plan..rooting voided that So yeah, I'm RIGHT there with u, stuck with what used to be a kick ass functioning tablet, that is now just a nuisance and is gonna end up being yet another dusty R.I.P. electronic stuck in a drawer somewhere..when will I learn?! lol. Best of luck..
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Yeah, I'm having the SAAAME exact issu... about the first 3 weeks after rooting with that rom everything was allll good and great..... NOW, I have to shut down and reboot about 5-8 times A DAY!.. 'Launcher' stops working, and EVERY-DAMN-TIME my tablet goes to sleep/screen off for more than about 30-40 mins..it just crashes and you have to force it to shut down and reboot.. Rooting was soooo not worth it, I never even really ended up using any "root required" features or apps anyways, besides folder mount (stopped functioning), and GameKiller. And now I'm fizznucked cause even know my sero7p is only 2 MONTHS old/new and I bought the 2 year replacement plan..rooting voided that So yeah, I'm RIGHT there with u, stuck with what used to be a kick ass functioning tablet, that is now just a nuisance and is gonna end up being yet another dusty R.I.P. electronic stuck in a drawer somewhere..when will I learn?! lol. Best of luck..
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What I did was flash the first stock ROM in the list and then tell cwm no when it asks if I want to stop the ROM from flashing the stock recovery and then no again when it asks about root and it's all back to normal now
What is the first thing you will do with your phone? Remove bloatware? root? etc.
budven said:
What is the first thing you will do with your phone? Remove bloatware? root? etc.
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Probably install clash of clans and hayday hahaha..
Porn in 4k?
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jager420 said:
Porn in 4k?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Free mobile app
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That applies new emphasis to the attribute of, "flesh tones". Giggity giggity giggity
thedanks said:
Probably install clash of clans and hayday hahaha..
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Went to install clash of clans... it comes preloaded lol.
thedanks said:
Went to install clash of clans... it comes preloaded lol.
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Your joking right? That's literally the only game I play on my phone.
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Your joking right? That's literally the only game I play on my phone.
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not joking. i am pretty sure it was preloaded. i went to the app store and it said installed, i chose not to restore backups from my google account. it didn't restore any other apps.
First thing I did was install all my personal apps, then debloated VZW junk.
One thing I always like to do with new phones is go through all of the preloaded ringtones and notification sounds. Some of them are so hilariously bad I'm actually tempted to use them.
First thing I did was enable ART in developer settings. I recommend you all do the same!
The first thing was root. By far the most important aspect for me.
Secondly, fought with my bloody MicroSD card. Had about 30GB of music, 20GB of ePSXe/PPSSPP games, a couple of thousand pictures (including recent ultrasound shots of my unborn child), and a full Titanium Backup folder from my S4. Removed said card from S4, even went so far as to unmount it from the storage menu. Popped it into my G3 and got the dreaded "Blank SD card" message. Tried slotting it into the S4 again. Same thing. Went back between the two devices and the card reader on my laptop for about fifteen minutes before giving up. Delved into forums for another thirty, no real luck besides finding out that the S4 seems to have a lot of issues with SanDisk's 64GB MicroSDXC card for some reason.
After much lamenting...formatted the thing, ran another backup of Titanium, finally got what I needed over to the G3. Cussed for another thirty minutes or so, smoked a few cigs, then got back to it. Froze a long list of bloatware/services I won't use. Installed Xposed and the G3 TweaksBox.
And now, nothing. It's more or less ready for me to swing by Verizon tomorrow and have them transfer it over to my line and reactivate my mother's dumb phone. Because well...As much as I am liking the G3, I wasn't about to give up unlimited data for it. Here's hoping someone can unlock the bootloader or find a loki workaround for the device!
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First thing I did was enable ART in developer settings. I recommend you all do the same!
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specifically what differences have you noticed with ART?
kthung said:
specifically what differences have you noticed with ART?
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Truthfully, not a whole let yet. This was my first chance to try ART as I'd heard from other device threads that it can improve overall performance and bring a slight boost to battery life. I definitely did notice there was little to no lag in certain apps compared to when I was running dalvik. Although, my G3 has shut off on it's own multiple times today and I only received it this morning so I'm more concerned about getting it stable
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First thing I did was enable ART in developer settings. I recommend you all do the same!
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Don't jump the gun. Many people reporting bluetooth audio stuttering with screen off, wake locks, and random restarts with ART enabled.
i hope they make xposed compatible with ART soon
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Secondly, fought with my bloody MicroSD card. Had about 30GB of music, 20GB of ePSXe/PPSSPP games, a couple of thousand pictures (including recent ultrasound shots of my unborn child), and a full Titanium Backup folder from my S4. Removed said card from S4, even went so far as to unmount it from the storage menu. Popped it into my G3 and got the dreaded "Blank SD card" message. Tried slotting it into the S4 again. Same thing. Went back between the two devices and the card reader on my laptop for about fifteen minutes before giving up. Delved into forums for another thirty, no real luck besides finding out that the S4 seems to have a lot of issues with SanDisk's 64GB MicroSDXC card for some reason.
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I feel your pain!!! My Samsung 64gb MicroSD also took a dump, when I removed it from my GS3. Went through the fuster-cluck as you, taking a fresh TB snapshot and everything. Thank goodness for FolderSync, which I use to back up my photos to the cloud, else I'd have been SERIOUSLY PISSED!
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Don't jump the gun. Many people reporting bluetooth audio stuttering with screen off, wake locks, and random restarts with ART enabled.
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I should have held off. I did two factory resets followed by enabling ART each time and it froze on deep sleep each time. A 3rd factory reset and switching backed to Dalvik fixed my issues.
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I should have held off. I did two factory resets followed by enabling ART each time and it froze on deep sleep each time. A 3rd factory reset and switching backed to Dalvik fixed my issues.
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This. I rooted, titanium backup, removed bloat, installed my stuff, and swapped to ART. Just this morning I had 3 full freezes in a deep sleep that required battery pulls.
I just swapped back to Dalvik. At least I can use xposed. I have not done a factory reset. Going to hold off on that until it happens again.
I recommend others to not jump the gun as well. No, I only installed about 7 apps that are all stable. Avoiding anything truly custom for another week to make sure all is well with the device.
I hope this is emphasized enough by now. Please do NOT switch to ART on the Verizon G3. Many people had random freeze/power off problem with ART. Simply switch back to Dalvik fixed the problem.
The difference is night and day. On ART the phone stutters and gets really hot. I almost decided to return it before I realized all problem started after switching to ART. On Dalvik it's behaving more or less like a flagship is supposed to.
Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!
Pandora1331 said:
Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!
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could you just do a factory reset with the buttons on it?
or has that been tried before
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btw, i havent been here that long but i dont think you will get much responds because this is on a general thread, i think it would be better if it was in a helping section
Phurkus said:
could you just do a factory reset with the buttons on it?
or has that been tried before
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btw, i havent been here that long but i dont think you will get much responds because this is on a general thread, i think it would be better if it was in a helping section
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I mentioned that I did a factory reset - but I didn't mention I did it several times (more than that even). Again, the enlighten doesn't really give you a lot of options when you do one. It shows a picture of the android and a file folder for a few seconds - maybe 10... then it boots. there's no option, no text, no choices, nothing. A bit confusing to be honest. Then it boots up, you get the language choice and activation call (which goes through fine) and then wham! back to hell and that freakin' error message.
BTW I posted here because there is no specific forum for the enlighten phone - I didn't want to post in a forum for another phone and get yelled at. Suggestions on a forum? and thanks for taking the time to reply! :0
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I mentioned that I did a factory reset - but I didn't mention I did it several times (more than that even). Again, the enlighten doesn't really give you a lot of options when you do one. It shows a picture of the android and a file folder for a few seconds - maybe 10... then it boots. there's no option, no text, no choices, nothing. A bit confusing to be honest. Then it boots up, you get the language choice and activation call (which goes through fine) and then wham! back to hell and that freakin' error message.
BTW I posted here because there is no specific forum for the enlighten phone - I didn't want to post in a forum for another phone and get yelled at. Suggestions on a forum? and thanks for taking the time to reply! :0
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I just thought I would post how I just resolved this. I got passed it by getting a PHONE CALL! I flipped the screen up to answer, yanked away. After the call was done I didn't do anything, the other party hung up. Then there was a REALLY long pause on the phone - the screen went black. I waited a couple of minutes, pushing the buttons did nothing. Then finally - the home screen came up. NO MORE BEING PROMPTED FOR A FORCE CLOSE! Yea! And it appear everything is working. Now before it decides to break again I want to flash the rom (I am running the bloated stock rom). Thanks for checking this out. and if you're looking at this cause you're having the same problem, I really hope what worked for me works for you too!
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I just thought I would post how I just resolved this. I got passed it by getting a PHONE CALL! I flipped the screen up to answer, yanked away. After the call was done I didn't do anything, the other party hung up. Then there was a REALLY long pause on the phone - the screen went black. I waited a couple of minutes, pushing the buttons did nothing. Then finally - the home screen came up. NO MORE BEING PROMPTED FOR A FORCE CLOSE! Yea! And it appear everything is working. Now before it decides to break again I want to flash the rom (I am running the bloated stock rom). Thanks for checking this out. and if you're looking at this cause you're having the same problem, I really hope what worked for me works for you too!
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Ayy greate job OP! glad to hear that. hope you dont do the same mistake twice
Phurkus said:
Ayy greate job OP! glad to hear that. hope you dont do the same mistake twice
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lol you and me both!
This was a learning experience, it was the first time ever I have had a phone with an external micro sd card which holds more data than the actual phone. Also, my first Android. So I am thrilled to have my phone back - I had been messing with it late last night when this happened and didn't sleep at all because, well, I thought I just bricked my phone!
Lessons learned:
You can move just about any app you want to the sd card, no problem - but what you don't want to move are the operating system files/apps. Nor do you want to convert them to "user apps" and move them. Or at least I don't. Since I don't quite understand how it works, and what that does. I had THOUGHT it would just mean everything would run from my sd card - maybe a smidge slower - but it would run. Well, I was wrong. lol. So I am passing that tidbit along.
Also, in the future, if anything like this happens - don't be so quick to do a factory reset, cause you now take away the ability to connect via usb... It is a last resort, not a panicked, go to move. At least not for me.
And, there is something called Rom Managers - install one on your freakin' phone. I didn't know about them. So I didn't have one. I could have resolved this whole thing sooner if I had (maybe).
Lastly, before you do too much - have someone call you or call yourself from another phone to see what happens. It fixed my problem. Of course I won't be rebooting before I flash my rom (wow, that sounds dirty lol) cause I fear the same thing happening...
That's all I wanted to share - cause that's what I learned. Sorry if this is super obvious to people - it sure wasn't to me.
Pandora1331 said:
lol you and me both!
This was a learning experience, it was the first time ever I have had a phone with an external micro sd card which holds more data than the actual phone. Also, my first Android. So I am thrilled to have my phone back - I had been messing with it late last night when this happened and didn't sleep at all because, well, I thought I just bricked my phone!
Lessons learned:
You can move just about any app you want to the sd card, no problem - but what you don't want to move are the operating system files/apps. Nor do you want to convert them to "user apps" and move them. Or at least I don't. Since I don't quite understand how it works, and what that does. I had THOUGHT it would just mean everything would run from my sd card - maybe a smidge slower - but it would run. Well, I was wrong. lol. So I am passing that tidbit along.
Also, in the future, if anything like this happens - don't be so quick to do a factory reset, cause you now take away the ability to connect via usb... It is a last resort, not a panicked, go to move. At least not for me.
And, there is something called Rom Managers - install one on your freakin' phone. I didn't know about them. So I didn't have one. I could have resolved this whole thing sooner if I had (maybe).
Lastly, before you do too much - have someone call you or call yourself from another phone to see what happens. It fixed my problem. Of course I won't be rebooting before I flash my rom (wow, that sounds dirty lol) cause I fear the same thing happening...
That's all I wanted to share - cause that's what I learned. Sorry if this is super obvious to people - it sure wasn't to me.
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there you go OP! what i do is i have an old LG phone that i like to mess with or put apps to try them out from here. and it its good, i put it on my regualr phone.
sounds like you learned and just bumped yourself up the ladder of software knoledge today!
Phurkus said:
there you go OP! what i do is i have an old LG phone that i like to mess with or put apps to try them out from here. and it its good, i put it on my regualr phone.
sounds like you learned and just bumped yourself up the ladder of software knoledge today!
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Absolutely! I love to learn especially stuff I don't know much about - but... I wish it didn't happen in such a panic lol. Oh well, lessons learned... I wouldn't have been in a panic if it weren't my only phone, but it is. :0
I also wish it were easier to learn - it seems (at least to me) that every phone has enough unique characteristics that you really have to be specific about model and o/s. It makes searching for answers that much more difficult. What works for one person won't work for all or even most. You have to do a lot of trial and error. I suppose if I were a programmer perhaps it would be more clear to me on how these things tick. I am tho, just a tech - I fix and build stuff. Although I do have some programming ability, I would never even dream to call my pathetic scribblings code. lol Scripts yes, but really, really simple ones and thing more complex is just greek to me.
Is there any good place to see what kind of custom roms work best with the enlighten? I am thinking of putting one on there... I hate the bloatware stock rom.
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Absolutely! I love to learn especially stuff I don't know much about - but... I wish it didn't happen in such a panic lol. Oh well, lessons learned... I wouldn't have been in a panic if it weren't my only phone, but it is. :0
I also wish it were easier to learn - it seems (at least to me) that every phone has enough unique characteristics that you really have to be specific about model and o/s. It makes searching for answers that much more difficult. What works for one person won't work for all or even most. You have to do a lot of trial and error. I suppose if I were a programmer perhaps it would be more clear to me on how these things tick. I am tho, just a tech - I fix and build stuff. Although I do have some programming ability, I would never even dream to call my pathetic scribblings code. lol Scripts yes, but really, really simple ones and thing more complex is just greek to me.
Is there any good place to see what kind of custom roms work best with the enlighten? I am thinking of putting one on there... I hate the bloatware stock rom.
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i learned that lesson too when putting a rom on my phone, not everything works for everyone.
the best place i can think of is on here lol. i just assume the rom with the most replys and views is the most popular. you can try googleing because i know there are other mobile development forums out there that work on other roms. but i know this is the most popular forum.